Category: Anger
Oklahoma Theater Posted ‘Lightyear’ Gay Kiss Warning: We’ll Try to Fast-Forward Through It
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/oklahoma-theater-lightyear-gay-kiss-warning-1235301733/
Fucking dogs that love gravy it is already started! The war on even a same sex kiss on screen. For Fuck sake what is the harm of a same sex kiss between cartoon characters? Have they never watched Bugs Bunny, he kissed everyone including Elmer Fudd. This is the Russian model of making the LGBTQ+ disappear, never to be seen. I am so tired of this fight. My existence is now seen as a threat to the well being to the evangelical religious / right wing class. This shit is a serious threat that belongs back in the 1970 / 1980s. It is now 2022, and we still face this shit. it the US a fucking democracy or a theocracy? The people better come out and overwhelmingly vote Democrat and hope that the rigging of the election offices don’t stop the voter’s choice from winning the election. Hugs
The 89er Theatre in Kingfisher, Oklahoma has come under fire after posting a warning about a brief gay kiss featured in Pixar’s “Lightyear.” A sign was posted on the window of the theater during the movie’s opening weekend warning moviegoers about the gay kiss and claiming the theater would “do all we can to fast-forward” through the scene. Kingfisher is located about 50 miles from Oklahoma City.
As reported by NBC News, the warning post included the following message: “Attention Parents: The management of this theatre discovered after booking ‘Lightyear’ that there is a same-sex kissing scene within the first 30 minutes of the Pixar movie. We will do all we can to fast-forward through that scene, but it might not be exact.”
Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate KFOR reported the sign was posted over the weekend and was removed by Monday afternoon. One local resident, Patricia Kasbek, told NBC News she first thought the warning was a joke. Kasbek then left a complaint with the theater after discovering the warning was real.
“I told them that it was completely insulting for them to censor a same-gender kiss when they’ve never done this to an opposite-gender kiss,” Kasbek said, calling the sign “cruel” and “bigoted.” “I will never see a movie at this theater while under this ownership.”
Alex Wade, the deputy director of the LGBTQ advocacy organization Oklahomans for Equality, also slammed the theater in a statement to NBC News, saying, “I am not shocked to see something like this happening in my state, but it does break my heart that young LGBTQ+ Oklahomans are made to feel like something is wrong with them. This is why we develop chapters in rural Oklahoma to show everyone that there are people in their corner.”
“When same-sex couples show affection, even the most chaste of kisses, it is sexualized and treated as if it were explicit,” Wade added. “If this were a heterosexual couple, the theater would never even think of skipping it, because heterosexual couples are given the grace to be intimate without being shamed.”
“Lightyear” underwhelmed at the box office in its debut, grossing only $51 million. For Pixar, “Lightyear” ranks as one of the studio’s lower starts, behind 2017’s “Cars 3” ($53 million) and ahead of 2015’s “The Good Dinosaur” ($39 million) and 2020’s “Onward” ($39 million). It’s also one of the rare Pixar films to not take the top spot at the domestic box office, landing in second place.
I’ve had enough for the day.
Elagabalus • an hour ago • edited
Republicans:
The sight of two animated same-sex figures kissing: shocking.
The sight of dozens of dead school children unrecognizable because their heads have been blown off: meh.
‘Til Tuesday – F!@K THE SC! 😡 • an hour ago
If someone were in a coma and woke up today they’d think they’re in Saudi Arabia or some other religious theocracy.
Elagabalus ‘Til Tuesday – F!@K THE SC! 😡 • an hour ago
I’d say Iran ca. 1978 is a good comparison. On the surface, when the year began, everything seemed fairly normal for women until the instant the Shah was deposed. In that instant the religious fundies took over and everything changed, literally overnight. If it can happen there it can happen anywhere.
현빈(🇰🇷🇰🇿Hyunbin🇺🇸)🥋☕ • an hour ago
America is becoming everything they criticize in foreign countries. Unholy shit. Mind your mental health, American friends. I’m sure today has been A LOT. Like, just the most.
In Concurring Roe Opinion, Clarence Thomas Calls For Overturning Obergefell, Lawrence, And Griswold Rulings
And it starts. We knew this was coming. Doesn’t he realize his own marriage is also going to be illegal if we return to the 1950’s? These wealthy or religious people on the court don’t think the police are bad because they won’t be affected by bad cops, like congress they won’t be affected by the rulings they make. These people have the idea that they are the elite and are above the laws the laws the rest of us must follow Why would they worry about guns flooding the country, the first-time people peacefully protested near their homes they got congress to immediately pass a law against it enforced by the very police they constantly protect from any civilian threats, even though congress cannot pass laws that protect school kids from mass shootings. 9 court justices got a law passed right away no delay; many kids killed so what. This is no longer a country governed by the people for the people, it is corporations ruling over government to support profit at all costs. Ron and I have made sure our passports are up to date and we will be using our funds to move as soon as sex between consenting same sex couples are illegal and our marriage becomes a joke in Florida, the home of the desperate to president maga “Don’t say gay” attack Disney for being too tolerant DeathSantis makes us gays illegal. Oh yes that is the same DeathSantis that recently tried to say with a straight face that Florida wouldn’t tolerate attacks on gay people as he celebrated the Pulse night club massacre. This is on every tRump voter. This is on every Republican voter. This is on every religious person who voted for the Republican over the Democrat. Thank you to each and every one of you for rolling the country back to the 1950s to enjoy your superiority. Now give up your cell phones, smart TV’s, internet, GPS, and all the science advances, give up all the medical advances, just go back to live in that regressive world you assholes because you don’t deserve to live with the rest of us. Thanks for putting the rights of others on the chopping block so you could have your god in everyone’s life and your fucking tax breaks so corporations and wealthy people pay nothing while the public work 3 or 4 jobs 60 to 80 hours a week to pay the corporate rent and buy food to eat. Fuck this country. By the way think you are a citizen because you were born in the US, that is also on the chopping block that many hard right conservatives want to get rid of. Hugs
From Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion:
The Court’s abortion cases are unique, see ante, at 31–32, 66, 71–72, and no party has asked us to decide “whether our entire Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence must be preserved or revised,” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 813 (opinion of THOMAS, J.).
Thus, I agree that “[n]othing in [the Court’s] opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Ante, at 66.
For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
Gregory In Seattle Elagabalus • 39 minutes ago
Honestly, I don’t think he cares. Republicans are so blinded by their hate that they never think through how their actions might somehow affect themselves.
That doesn’t mean someone or some group won’t try to overturn that. Remember, the conservative majority doesn’t *need* Thomas to accomplish its goals.
Sister_Bertrille • 2 hours ago
Women, we fought hard for our liberation. We will have to do it again.
LGBTQI+ brothers, sisters, and allies, we fought hard to safeguard our rights and lives during the AIDS epidemic. We will have to do it again.
We have it in us. Everyone else, join us or get the fuck out of our way.
Citing anti-gay discrimination, 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year leaving classroom
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article262785383.html
2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Willie Carver Provided by Willie Carver Jr.
Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, who is gay, says he is leaving the K-12 classroom “to make the most difference, and the discrimination and lack of support prevent me from making that difference.”
After 17 years being a public school teacher, Willie Carver Jr. said he decided to leave the classroom and take a position at the University of Kentucky in student support services.
Carver told the Herald-Leader – and UK officials confirmed – that he will be an academic advisor at the Gatton College for Business and Economics.
“I am very excited about this opportunity to continue helping young people in their quest for education, Carver said in a Facebook post. “This was not an easy decision; I have cried quite a few times trying to make it over the past few months. But, ultimately, I have always wanted to be in the place where I can most make a difference in the lives of the next generation. I believe that UK is where I can do this.”
“I also increasingly find that, as a queer person in K-12 education, I have been unable to do that work without facing discrimination, heartache, and being a part of systems that cause harm, though I am immensely proud of my brilliant, hardworking, and fierce colleagues who have and continue to change that system in defense of students.”
In May, Carver told a Congressional subcommittee that he faced discrimination as a gay teacher and that hatred was the norm in schools. The panel was examining the wave of race and LGBTQ censorship engulfing America’s K-12 classrooms.
Carver, who had been teaching high school in Montgomery County, told the Herald-Leader that “vocal anti-LGBTQ extremists at school board meetings (and on social media) have been personally attacking me and my former students.”
“The national rhetoric is turned up, and LGBTQ teachers bear the weight of a lot of hatred that catalyzes the vitriol. It’s tiring,” he said.
Carver said he had been unable to find support from his school administration. “Mr. Carver is a wonderful English and French teacher. We wish him well in his new endeavor,” Montgomery County Superintendent Matthew Thompson said.
Carter said he had been proud to be a teacher and had worked tirelessly for students and their families.
He said he found the resources they needed. He said his goal had always been to strengthen his community and teach young people to believe in themselves.
“I also know that I symbolize potential for some students. I symbolize potential for students who come from poverty, for Appalachian students, and for LGBTQ students,” said Carver. “Of late, I feel beaten down. I’ve withstood it, but it’s hard to find peace or happiness when you’re under attack. This is all the more problematic when a person is a symbol. I can’t risk breaking.”
Some schools are doing incredible work for their students and teachers who are racial or ethnic minorities, or are LGBTQ, he said. Some are not, he said.
“Some are doing harm, are rendering people invisible, are illegalizing discussions about queerness or blackness, are afraid to be allies for fear of political retribution,” Carver said.
“A question that anyone in a system has to ask is whether they are capable of changing that system or whether they are perpetuating it. I believe that I am able best to work with a system that helps students by moving forward.”
Carver mentioned Tyler Clay Morgan, a former music teacher at Kentucky’s West Irvine Intermediate School who resigned after he wrote a message to students on his classroom board that later became controversial.
Morgan in April confirmed to the Herald-Leader that he wrote a message on his classroom board that said, “You Are Free to Be Yourself With Me. You Matter.” The message included a rainbow flag and rainbow colors.
“This is a message I always tried to teach every student too,” said Carver. “I know Tyler and I aren’t alone in this. Thank you to each and every person who has made me, their own colleagues, and their students feel that they mattered.”
Kentucky Teacher Of Year Resigns Over Homophobia
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports:
Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, who is gay, says he is leaving the K-12 classroom “to make the most difference, and the discrimination and lack of support prevent me from making that difference.”
After 17 years being a public school teacher, Willie Carver Jr. said he decided to leave the classroom and take a position at the University of Kentucky in student support services.
Carver, who had been teaching high school in Montgomery County, told the Herald-Leader that “vocal anti-LGBTQ extremists at school board meetings (and on social media) have been personally attacking me and my former students.” Carver said he had been unable to find support from his school administration.
Read the full article.
Last month Carver testified before a House subcommittee about accusations that he was “grooming students.” Watch the clip.
its no wonder there is a teacher shortage. low pay + high abuse + no respect.
Zorba PickyPecker • 18 hours ago
If I was 50 years younger, I would not go into teaching again.
I left in 1999. The issue was no pay. None at all for months. The other issue was the university’s extremely poor organization.
wmforr PickyPecker • 12 hours ago
I am thinking it might also become dangerous to be a librarian. }}}shudder {{{
This story makes me sad. Willie Carver could be any of us here – ordinary people who happen to be gay and are just trying to do their jobs and get through life as best we can with some shred of integrity. His story is our story.
Chunk Elagabalus • 18 hours ago
When I was perceived as a straight white male I was on the fast track at the company I worked for, when I transitioned I became unpromotable and was stuck in a corner and told to shut the fuck up. I created my own path after that, I’m much happier now. Good luck to those that face adversity because of who they are, keep your chin up and don’t be afraid to bushwhack your way to a better future.
So the bigots won, basically.
kaydenpat Bruno • 18 hours ago
It’s hard to teach when you’re being bombarded with bigotry and censorship about who you are.
Todd20036 kaydenpat • 18 hours ago • edited
And then they tell their kids their teacher is “sick” and a “pedophile”
Sister_Bertrille Bruno • 18 hours ago
They did, but I can’t blame him for the career switch. There’s only so much hate a person can take.
ECarpenter Bruno • 16 hours ago • edited
Anyone who thinks that the bigots are not currently winning is not paying attention.
Where are the calls to give Biden a House and Senate that will pass his agenda? Where is the national drive explicitly laying out what the Democrats will pass if they’re given a sufficient majority? Where is the PR campaign pointing out the bills that Republicans have stopped, and their record of obstruction? I don’t get it – where are the Democrats?
Goodbye to a sort-of functioning, somewhat democratic country – we’re pretty much doomed.
wmforr ECarpenter • 13 hours ago
While the real-world channels were covering the attack on Democracy today, the BREAKING NEWS on Fux was Nancy Pelosi ‘s father-in-law ‘s traffic accident.
This is the red state plan in order to stamp out the “queering” of America.
Make the lives of LGBTs so unpleasant and dangerous that they’re forced back into the closet or leave the state.
A secondary goal is to make public school teaching even more aversive than it is now so that the system collapses.
And now they have the courts to help them accomplish their goal.
Good teachers are being forced out every year. Dealing with inept superiors, parents who are overwhelmed or just don’t give a fuck about their children and their education and being the political football for dipshits like DeSantis and right-wingers brings teachers to their breaking points. Kudos to Mr. Carver and I wish him luck with his new job.
The far-right fascists were trying to prevent gay people from teaching at least as far back as the 1970’s. See the “Briggs Initiative.”
Federal Court PUNISHES Citizens For Expressing Their Political Opinions
http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi…
“A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Arkansas’ law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, finding the restriction is not an unconstitutional violation of free speech.
The full 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a 2-1 decision last year by a three-judge panel of the court that found the requirement to be unconstitutional.
The Arkansas Times had sued to block the law, which requires contractors with the state to reduce their fees by 20% if they don’t sign the pledge.” *
Trump Writhes With Anger While Hate-Watching January 6th Hearings
http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
Read more HERE: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-hate-wat…
“Former President Donald Trump is hate-watching the January 6 committee hearings, incensed because he believes nobody is defending him, according to The Washington Post.
Trump is at “the point of about to scream at the TV” as he tunes in to each hearing, one unnamed close advisor told the paper.
Another in his circle, also unnamed, told the paper that Trump continually complains that “there’s no one to defend me” at the hearings, which have attracted huge amounts of media coverage.
A person familiar with the situation denied this to Insider, saying: “This is not true. He has barely watched any of the hearings at all.””
One Million Moms Vs “Brainwashing” Trans Barbie Doll
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole:
Mattel recently announced its launch of the first transgender Barbie doll as part of its #TRANSISBEAUTIFUL Tribute Collection, modeled after the Orange Is the New Black actor and LGBTQ activist Laverne Cox.
Mattel created a Barbie in his likeness, wearing a red, sheer evening gown with a faux leather strapless top, a tulle skirt, and a sparkly silver bodysuit underneath.
The Laverne Cox doll promotes cross-dressing and glorifies the transgender lifestyle. Mattel has created a toy glorifying gender inclusivity while ignoring one’s biological sex.
Barbie is also donating in Cox’s name to TransFamilySOS, an organization that describes its mission as a service “that saves lives by shaping a gender affirming and accepting community.”
It is outrageous that a toy company is marketing and normalizing gender dysphoria to young children.
Parents who are not already aware of the company’s agenda, please be forewarned: Children are being “groomed” by Mattel trans Barbie dolls under the disguise of playtime.
Now, parents will have to deal with the confusion experienced by their children when these inappropriate dolls are seen on store shelves such as Walmart, Target, and other stores that sell Barbie dolls.
This new product makes it clear that Mattel has an LGBTQ agenda that it is forcing on extremely young audiences.
Obviously, Mattel is attempting to “groom” the next generation. This company should be enhancing learning during play, but instead, Mattel is brainwashing our preschoolers and elementary-age children.
Mattel is hoping to have this doll placed in playrooms solely to indoctrinate children into transgenderism and homosexuality.
The company’s goal is to have everyone, even toddlers, accept the LGBTQ lifestyle, but a toy company should never even consider taking part in this abomination.
Mattel is purposely confusing our innocent children by attempting to destroy very definitive gender lines. Why can’t the toy manufacturer let kids be who God created them to be instead of glamorizing a sinful lifestyle?
Mattel is choosing to push an agenda of sexual confusion instead of promoting its actual product.
This PC-inclusive toy blurs the biological distinctions between males and females. Introducing children to this lifestyle choice is contrary to what conservative, Christian parents are teaching their children about God’s design.
Take Action now and demand that Mattel remove the controversial doll from shelves immediately!
TAKE ACTION: Sign our petition urging Mattel to discontinue production and sales of its trans Barbie doll immediately. Be sure to share this campaign with your friends and family!
Get your Laverne Cox Barbie here!
Dolls can’t “brainwash” kids. If they could I’d be a beefy heterosexual guy who loves camping and fishing. (I’m not.)
#BigJimsCamper
PickyPecker Gigi • 17 hours ago
and i’d be a butch mechanic
Long Island library board votes to ‘remove all Pride displays’ and LGBTQ books from children’s section
Why do these people think that kids just seeing gay people and pride items is wrong. Didn’t we just have Father’s Day? The media and daily life are awash with heterosexual / straight couples doing lovey stuff, kissing, holding hands, hugging, sleeping in the same beds on TV sometimes out right close to making out and no one yells and screams protect the kids. I am sick of the way this shit is going. I remember what it was like as a gay kid not seeing anyone else like me with my feelings on TV or movies and instead hearing only bad things about people who had feelings like me. It totally messes you up. I am so upset over the drive to wipe the LGBTQ+ out of the public square and instead fill the space with their religion, God, and the bible. Hugs
A library on Long Island has voted to remove “all Pride displays” as well as Pride-related books from its children’s sections.
The Smithtown Library Board of Trustees voted 4-2 Tuesday to ban any and all displays related to LGBTQ Pride from kids’ areas at Smithtown Library buildings, a move that was met with fierce backlash and call for action by advocates.
The New York Library Association slammed Smithtown’s move, calling it “a direct violation of NYLA’s commitment to intellectual freedom and the freedom to read that libraries are entrusted to uphold.”
The organization reaffirmed its commitment to stand alongside the LGBTQ community, “especially our LGBTQ+ youth, who utilize libraries across the state as a refuge to foster their love of learning and of their authentic selves.”
Library officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the ban, but library director Robert Lusak told Newsday that at least 29 books are affected by the ban. They include a history of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and picture books like “Pink is for Boys” and “Pride Puppy.”
Governor Kathy Hochul tweeted Wednesday night that “our public spaces should be accepting our young people — not rejecting them,” reminding all LGBTQ New Yorkers that the state supports and welcomes them.
The LGBT Network, a nonprofit that fights for the rights of LGBTQ people and their families in Queens and Long Island, has planned a press conference for late Thursday morning to announce its plans to oppose anti-LGBTQ measures in libraries and schools.
The library’s “bigoted move” to remove the books and Pride displays “enraged members of the LGBT community in Suffolk County, where over 100,000 LGBT residents reside,” the group said in a statement ahead of the press event.
Todd20036 • 19 hours ago • edited
When I was growing up, I had no gay books. No internet. No one to talk to. No one to ask questions
I still ended up being gay
Orientation isn’t some choice you learn about. It just is
But try telling the MAGAts that
nocadrummer Todd20036 • 19 hours ago
Orientation isn’t some choice.
But Religion IS a choice.
🄿🅁🄸🅇🄰🅃🄾🅁 – 🅃🅁🄸🄿🄻🄴 🅅🄰🅇🅇🄴🄳 nocadrummer • 18 hours ago
And, children are definitely indoctrinated or “groomed” into religion.
Caitlyn Haiku 🄿🅁🄸🅇🄰🅃🄾🅁 – 🅃🅁🄸🄿🄻🄴 🅅🄰🅇🅇🄴🄳 • 17 hours ago
As someone who a church tried (and eventually failed) to indoctrinate, I feel kids should not be exposed to religion until they are in their late teens at the earliest.
Dot Beech 🇺🇦 Todd20036 • 19 hours ago • edited
There were no gay books when I was growing up. Not for kids, anyway.
But the library had Broadway Original Cast Albums. Heh heh heh. The first time I became acquainted with Elaine Stritch, it was on the COMPANY cast album I checked out of the library.
I can’t say for sure that Julie Andrews turned me queer, but I can’t be certain that she didn’t. (It might have been Mary or Ethel.)
Chris Baker Todd20036 • 17 hours ago
Same here, grew up in a conservative Christian house. Didn’t know anyone gay, wasn’t molested, didn’t have any sexual encounters, grew up thinking that being gay was one of the worst things possible. But nonetheless, I am gay. It did take me a little while to ‘realize’ it and caused some depression in my 20s. But with that upbringing, it really made me realize that being gay was not a choice, or something I was ‘tricked’ or seduced into, etc.
My public library is where I found hope as a young child, unsure of myself and having nowhere else to look for answers on what I was feeling.
Ross • 19 hours ago • edited
& work tirelessly to ensure their entire community feels welcome.
By making sure that LGBTQ people feel unwlecome.
For decades the far-right has been outraged by the “queering” of America. Now their battle cry is to “stamp it out”.
And now they have taken over the courts and a majority of state legislatures.
In the history of the rise of fascism the US is now in the stage of “institutional capture.” When complete, it’s almost impossible to recover.
It’s going to get very ugly and dangerous for LGBTs for a very long time. Orban’s Hungary, Putin’s Russia. Winter is coming.
LGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan
The rights of LGBTQ students would become enshrined in federal law and victims of campus sexual assault would gain new protections under new rules proposed by the Biden administration on Thursday.
The proposal, announced on the 50th anniversary of the Title IX women’s rights law, is intended to replace a set of controversial rules issued during the Trump administration by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
President Joe Biden’s education secretary, Miguel Cardona, said that even though there have been significant strides toward gender equality, discrimination and sexual violence persist.
“Even as we celebrate all the progress we’ve achieved, standing up for equal access and inclusion is as important as ever before,” he said.
The proposal is almost certain to be challenged by conservatives, and it is expected to lead to new legal battles over the rights of transgender students in schools, especially in sports. It now faces a public feedback period before the administration can finalize any changes, meaning the earliest that the policy is likely to take effect is next year.
The step meets a demand from victims rights advocates who wanted Biden to release new rules no later than the anniversary of Title IX, which outlaws discrimination based on sex in schools and colleges. Advocates say DeVos’ rules have gone too far in protecting students accused of sexual misconduct, at the expense of victims.
As a presidential candidate, Biden had promised a quick end to DeVos’ rules, saying they would “shame and silence survivors.”
In announcing its proposal, Biden’s Education Department said DeVos’ rules “weakened protections for survivors of sexual assault and diminished the promise of an education free from discrimination.”
For the first time, the rules would formally protect LGBTQ students under Title IX. Nothing in the 1972 law explicitly addresses the topic, but the new proposal would clarify that the law applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
It would make clear that “preventing someone from participating in school programs and activities consistent with their gender identity would cause harm in violation of Title IX,” according to the department. More specific rules dealing with the rights of transgender students in school sports will be released later, the department said.
Biden marked the anniversary of Title IX by acknowledging the impact the law has had in advancing equity but acknowledging there was more to do.
“As we look to the next 50 years, I am committed to protecting this progress and working to achieve full equality, inclusion, and dignity for women and girls, LGBTQI+ Americans, all students, and all Americans,” he said in a statement.
Many of the proposed changes would restore Obama-era rules that DeVos’ policy replaced.
The definition of sexual harassment would be expanded to cover a wider range of misconduct. Schools would be required to address any allegation that creates a “hostile environment” for students, even if the misconduct arises off campus. Most college employees, including professors and coaches, would be required to notify campus officials if they learn of potential sex discrimination.
In a victory for victims rights advocates, the proposal would eliminate a rule requiring colleges to hold live hearings to investigate sexual misconduct cases — one of the most divisive aspects of DeVos’ policy. Live hearings would be allowed under the new policy, but colleges could also appoint campus officials to question students separately.
Biden’s action drew praise from victims rights groups, LGBTQ advocates and Democratic lawmakers.
“These proposed regulations demonstrate a strong commitment to protecting educational opportunities for all students including LGBTQ students,” said Janson Wu executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. “Especially in light of ongoing state legislative attacks, we are grateful for the administration’s strong support of LGBTQ youth.”
Republicans in Congress were quick to denounce the proposal. Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, said the rules will “demolish due process rights and the safety of young women and girls across the country, with promised regulations still to come to undermine women’s access to athletic opportunities.”
If the proposal is finalized, it would mark the second rewrite of federal Title IX rules in two years. DeVos’ rules were themselves intended to reverse Obama-era guidance. The Obama policy was embraced by victims advocates but led to hundreds of lawsuits from accused students who said their colleges failed to give them a fair process to defend themselves.
The whiplash has left many schools scrambling to adopt ever-changing rules. Some have pressed for a political middle ground that will protect students without prompting new rules every time the White House changes power.
“It doesn’t serve anybody’s interest to have this ping-pong effect of changing rules every five years,” said S. Daniel Carter, a campus security consultant and president of Safety Advisors for Educational Campuses. “That’s just not a good way to get things done. It’s very difficult for everyone involved.”
DeVos’ rules dramatically reshaped the way colleges handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment, with an emphasis on ensuring the constitutional due process rights of the accused.
Under her rules, accused students were given wider rights to review and respond to evidence against them, and students had the right to cross-examine one another through a representative at live hearings.
The live hearing requirement was applauded as a victory for accused students, but it drew intense backlash from other advocates who said it forced victims to relive their trauma.
DeVos also reduced colleges’ obligations in responding to complaints. Her policy narrowed the definition of harassment and scaled back the types of cases colleges are required to address. As a result, some campuses have seen steep decreases in the number of Title IX complaints coming in from students.
Under her rules, for example, colleges are not required to investigate most complaints that arise off campus, and they do not have to act on any complaint unless the alleged misconduct is “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive.”
The overhaul was partly meant to lighten the burden on colleges as they mediate complex cases, but some say it ultimately added more work.
Leaders of some colleges have said the DeVos rules are too prescriptive and force them to turn campus discipline systems into miniature courtrooms. Many schools have continued to address all sexual misconduct complaints even if they do not meet the narrowed harassment definition, but they have had to set up separate discipline processes to handle those cases.
Advocates on both sides say that can be confusing for students.
“It shouldn’t be that way. It should be, if anything, more uniform — that’s the whole reason the Title IX regulations were put into place,” said Kimberly Lau, a New York lawyer who represents students in Title IX cases
Biden’s proposal is a major step in keeping his promise to reverse DeVos’ rules. He started the process last year when he ordered the Education Department to review the rules, but the agency has been bogged down by a slow-moving rule-making process.
NY Gov Blasts “Shocking” SCOTUS Ruling On Guns
The right to have a gun without being in a militia or military was a new right created by gun lover Anton Scalia and even he said there were some limits. That is the meaning of activist judges, he loved guns and played with guns and wanted guns freely taken everywhere. But now the SCOTUS are removing any restrictions based on a mythical romanticized verson of what the US was and founded to be. The fact is for all of US history guns were very tightly controlled, they were not just carried by everyone everywhere. It was not that way. Those myths of the wild west of gun touting people shooting everywhere and people like the rifle man solving all the problem is not real and is a stupid fantasy. The SCOTUS is an ideology driven group that is going to cause the entire country to crash and burn. All to push a religious ideology. Scary. Hugs
Spectrum News has the transcript:
Does everyone understand what a concealed weapon means? That you have no forewarning. That someone can hide a weapon on them and go into our subways, go into our grocery stores, like stores up in Buffalo, New York, where I’m from. Go into a school in Parkland or Uvalde, This could place millions of New Yorkers in harm’s way.
As governor of the state of New York, my number one priority is to keep New Yorkers safe, but today the Supreme Court is sending us backwards in our efforts to protect families and prevent gun violence.
And it’s particularly painful that this came down at this moment, when we are still dealing with families in pain from mass shootings that have occurred, the loss of life, their beloved children and grandchildren.
I’m prepared to call the Legislature back into session to deal with this. We’ve been in contact with leadership — we’re just looking at dates — but I will say, we are not powerless in this situation.
We’re not going to cede our rights that easily, despite the best efforts of the politicized Supreme Court of the United States of America.
This decision isn’t just reckless, it’s reprehensible. It’s not what New Yorkers want, and we should have the right of determination of what we want to do in terms of our gun laws in our state.
KaneHau TexasBoy • 3 hours ago
That way they can force women to get pregnant and have the baby at gun point.
La’Kietha TexasBoy • 2 hours ago
and they announced this decision right after they asked for and got beefed up security for Supreme Court justices
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